Perhaps pretentious was not the right word. My main point is that we aren’t able to do anything with the information he provided at face value.
This is a research forum at its core and in order to verify his claim we would need more. This doesn’t mean I doubt his claim, or that what he says is false, just that it adds nothing to use himself as an ‘exhibit’ in the argument and makes him ‘come across’ as pretentious in the attempt.
He would be better served to use well known examples like Einstein as evidence of the point he was making. We could verify his point with a cursory search and his point would stand. However, as a result of his unverifiable example, his point was missed entirely.
Perhaps pretentious was not the right word. My main point is that we aren’t able to do anything with the information he provided at face value.
This is a research forum at its core and in order to verify his claim we would need more. This doesn’t mean I doubt his claim, or that what he says is false, just that it adds nothing to use himself as an ‘exhibit’ in the argument and makes him ‘come across’ as pretentious in the attempt.
He would be better served to use well known examples like Einstein as evidence of the point he was making. We could verify his point with a cursory search and his point would stand. However, as a result of his unverifiable example, his point was missed entirely.